Former blogger and current Bloomsbury executive Richard Charkin is blogging again briefly, writing about the Frankfurt Book Fair for FAZ’s online site. A delayed flight from London on Monday “meant missing out on the evening’s main event, the award of the German Book Prize. This would have involved listening to quite long and complicated speeches in German, which I’ve always found to be a hugely relaxing pastime at the end of a stressful day, given that I don’t understand more than about three words of German.” Then, “Tuesday morning kicked off with a highly confidential meeting of the International Advisory […]